Maybe we can fix two "problems" at once--Jane, why don't you write a deep, esoteric
campaign pack focusing on the natural tensions between the lesbian and non-lesbian
Vingans attempting to define their cult mythically.
I can hear their war cries now: "Embrace the spear!" or "Take up the Axe!"
Perhaps the climax of the quest could involve the respective heroes of Vinga Woman-Lover
and Vinga Tomboy wrestling while the Blessed of Orlanth watch. Helerings or Nandans can
referee and handle the application of sacred oils. The losers leave Vinga for Babeester Gor.
TItle it "Clash of the Red-Haired Lesbian Warrior Women", publish it through Issaries and it
will sell better than any other supplement. Happy endings for everyone!
Of course, it might require a different marketing approach.
Mike Dawson
http://commonworlds.org
>
> YGWV
>
> Quoting Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_...>:
>
> > --- Mark Galeotti <markgaleotti_at_...> wrote:
>
> >> If you really want some core canon, then stick
> >> solely to official
> >> publications. There may be some inconsistencies, but
> >> they will generally be relatively minor.
> >
> > What started this off was a statement that an
> > inconsistency with Storm Tribe was about to be
> > introduced that was anything but relatively minor, on
> > the grounds that ST was a dumbed-down version for the
> > unwashed masses.
>
> What a rude comment!
> Nobody said anything about being dumbed down.
> I said it was for popular--i.e. commercial--purposes.
> Why are you insulting the people who buy this game by saying they need
> a "dumbled down" version?
>
> >> But there _is_ a GAG/GC, in the official
> >> books, and for most
> >> people who buy them and play the game, that's
> >> enough.
> >
> > And if future writings would stick to that CG/GaG, I'm
> > sure we'd be happy. That means, among other things,
> > that Vinga is "she".
>
> You seem to want the impossible.
> Glorantha is published by a company that has rarely had mmore than two
> employees.
>
> I have always encouraged people to write and get published what they
> can, even if it may later be superceded. Why?
> Because if we waited for everything to be perfect then NOTHING would
> ever get published.
> Most people are content with the published materials, even with
> inconsistancies.
>
> And I am pretty tired of all this fuss about revealign that many
> worshippers of a minor goddess might be lesbians.